This subtly kinky Olympics poster by pop artist Allen Jones is currently on show at Pallant House gallery, alongside other artists’ designs for the 1972 Munich Games. It translates the classic pin-up pose familiar from his signature BDSM-heavy motif – women’s legs clad in thigh-high patent leather stiletto-heeled boots – into two athletic pairs of pins.

The cover image of the Smashing Pumpkins’ Oceania turns an art deco landmark in a Chicago park into something reminiscent of the apocalyptic hinterlands of Andrei Tarkovsky’s sci-fi masterpiece Stalker.

Following the epic techno-gothic sets for Prometheus, to which HR Giger actually lent his hand, the artist’s influence can be seen in another summer blockbuster. The mask and breastplate of Batman villain Bane hark back to the muscular black armour worn in Lynch’s Dune, itself partly inspired by Giger’s designs for Alejandro Jodorowsky’s never-realised version of the film.

Fashion-cum-art photographer Juergen Teller has declared Lily Cole to be his muse, and a squint at Pixar’s upcoming Brave suggests he’s not the only one. The film’s animated heroine and her young friends also recall the waifish doll-headed poppets from American illustrator Margaret Keane’s surreally kitsch “big eye” paintings.